Example sentences of "[prep] he [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 2 | The sight of him hanging on the Cross — are we really supposed to worship that , defeat and death ? |
| 3 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 4 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 5 | Heaven knows whether he has it in him to take on the legacy of Melvyn Bragg in the 21st century , but he will give Artrageous ! the hip image a youth-oriented arts programme needs to convey . |
| 6 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |
| 7 | Gloria took it from him to hang on the back of the door . |
| 8 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 9 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 10 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 11 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 12 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 13 | He offered to forgo part of his salary as long as some employment would be found for him to make up the difference . |
| 14 | A small window on to the yard offered sufficient light for him to make out the cheese and butter and sacks of sugar and rice . |
| 15 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 16 | It 's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again . |
| 17 | Harlequins ' prompt 30-day suspension of the Wallaby World Cup forward , which forestalled any further action by the powers-that-be , did lead to him sitting out the loss to Northampton in the league ( although few of Quins ' other internationals played anyway ) . |
| 18 | I 'm waiting on him picking up the machine . |
| 19 | I shouted desperately , throwing water over him to put out the flames . |
| 20 | As the stretcher passed by he pulled back the blanket . |